WAGES: Maxi-Split on Minimums

During his first four months in office, Labor Secretary Peter J. Brennan
managed to remain all but invisible: he held no formal press conferences,
granted precious few interviews and avoided appearing before Congress. Last
week the former hardhat from Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen finally surfaced to
detail for a House subcommittee the Nixon Administration's minimum-wage bil−and
with that single appearance, Brennan provoked a maxi-split with his old
colleagues in the union movement. Said AFL-CIO President George Meany:
"We are aghast that Brennan has so completely abandoned the trade-union
principles he espoused for all...